I have to admit that I am not a big fan of radio. Other than the occasional listen to the always excellent BBC Radio 6, I tend to spend most of my listening time with my own music (iPods still rule!), and podcasts. I have been surprised by the endurance of podcasting, a medium that seems to have matured in the last decade. [ 1370 more words. ]
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Whenever I feel like criticising the European intermediary liability system, I look at Australia and any negativity quickly passes away. It has long been commented that while the USA, Europe, and many other countries have limitation of liability regimes in place, Australia seems to have managed to bypass most legislative solutions in favour of case law. The latest case to try to determine the level at which a service provider will be liable for content it does not control is the Supreme Court of South Australia decision in… [ 1301 more words. ]
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During the last decade, a common attack against open source licenses from their opponents stated that the documents were invalid because they had not been tested in court. This type of FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt) seemed to be very popular with certain unimaginative legal types unwilling to fathom innovative solutions. And of course, such an argument is entirely wrong, a license does not need to be tested in court to be valid, we happily sign and agree to hundreds of Terms of Use and End-User License Agreements that have never seen so much as a legal brief. [ 1332 more words. ]
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Article by Stéphanie Vidal under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license Please attribute author Stéphanie Vidal and first publication in Slate.France with a link to Translation into English by Philippe Aigrain, Mélanie Dulong de Rosnay, Jean-Christophe Peyssard Known worldwide as a free Internet defender and an Open Source culture promoter, he has been detained for three years and a half by the Bashar al-Assad regime and has been transferred from Adra prison to an unknown place on 3 October 2015. [ 2982 more words. ]
http://www.technollama.co.uk/bassel-khartabil-syrian-prison…
